The 11 Horrible People You Will Meet When Online Dating

Dating sucks. This is a universal truth. This is only intensified when you’re talking about online dating. The online dating world is rife with pervs, freaks, cult members, Nickelback fans, Juggalos, and possibly a decent person or two.The stakes are high and in the end you might just end up with the love of your life. That, or herpes.

Thankfully I’m happily involved, and have been for a long time, but I still suffer from a PTODD, or post-traumatic online dating disorder. I cringe at the site of random emails, expecting a rouge penis pic at any moment. Of course, many of the folks on these sites are perfectly normal and probably nice people, but fuck if there aren’t a lot of frogs to deal with. I’ve put together a list of some of the people you will inevitably meet on online dating sites. These are all inspired by real, actual profiles from guys and gals who have tried to contact me on POF.com. Some details have been changed to protect the ridiculous.

11. The “Already Negging You” Guy

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The Message:Don’t contact me unless you have all your teeth in place

If the person is already trying to knock you down a peg and you haven’t even exchanged an email, then that is a HUGE red flag. Just NOPE on out of there and hit the next button.

The Message:I’m rich but I ain’t captain Save-A-Hoe, so gold diggers beware.

For privacy’s sake I can’t tell you guys the actual screen name, but just know that it has the word DONG in it. Nuff’ said.

9. The Weirdo

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The Message:My interests are varied. I love quantum physics and freeze tag. Let’s go get a blue Icee and see where things go.

I mean, who doesn’t like a little freeze tag with their quantum physics, and I love a person who appreciates a good deal, but anyone who prefers a blue Icee over the clearly superior red one is surely a sonofabitch.

This is the guy that doesn’t have a regular profile photo, but rather a large stack of cash with a hundred dollar bill on top. You just know that under that top 100 dollar bill there are either a mess of singles or a bunch of money-shaped pieces of paper. I don’t know what this guy is trying to prove, but he’s failed. Miserably.

7. The “Way Too Full Of Himself” Guy AKA Epic Douchebag

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The Message: If you’re waiting for ME to talk to YOU, I most likely won’t…I’m over the chase. I know guys are dogs. I know you get hit on all the time and I’m not going to be just another hound chasing meat. I’m not desperate, trust me, if I just wanted a hook up I WOULDN’T need you to accomplish it.

First of all, he compares women to meat, so be still my beating heart. Then he lets us know that he can get laid. That’s right ladies. Getting that sweet, sweet poon tang ain’t no thang but a chicken wing.

Listen up potential online dating profile makers. There are only two reasons why anyone would be this vague on a dating site, and every woman knows it. You’re either NOT single and you don’t want your partner to know, or you’re boring as hell. Either way, you suck.

Sorry dude, I can’t hear you over the screams of all the exclamation points you’re abusing.

3. The “TMI” Guy

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The Message:Hey girl. One thing you gotta know. I’m joining the army, so if being an army wife ain’t for you then walk away now. Also, I love America and the second amendment, so SCREW Obama. My perfect date would be a kick ass Kid Rock concert. but you’ have to drive, because my license was just taken away. What can I say, I NEED the SPEED!

This person spills way too much information in their “about me” section. Now, I’m all for honestly, but save some for the first date, dude. Or never, because that works too.

2. The “Rapid Fire Facts” Guy

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The Message:Hi! How are you, gorgeous? Here are some things I love: Video games, cussing up a storm, getting some drinks…

I love how guys like this start out at least attempting to write full sentences, but then regresses into throwing out random words as interests. XBOX! BEER! CUSSING! Oh my!

1. The “You Can’t See My Dick” Guy

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The Message: (I think you can imagine what this message was)

Dude. No one wants to see your dick. Ever. We might have wanted to, but screaming at us in all caps has a way of dampening that. Or rather, un-dampening something else.

In the interest of full disclosure, I met my husband on Match.com. But yes, I went through quite a few of these guys myself.

A friend of mine has been doing online dating for over a year, and has received no less than three (3!) “dick pics.” What in the bloody hell is up with that? These weren’t guys she slept with or even went on a second date with; these are guys who on a random Sunday decided to send her a picture of their penis. I really want to know the origin of this and why someone would think this was a good idea.

Crusty Socks

Where all of their names “Carlos Danger”?

http://www.gamedevwidow.weebly.com/ Theresa Edwards

Carlos “Danger” Danger, more like.

March

Or Carlos “Stranger” Danger.

https://twitter.com/FaintlyXMacabre Theresa Edwards

Well played.

K Jones

OMG this happened to me a few times. The first was a nice guy (I thought) who I had a good-but-not-great first date with. He asked me out again and I declined. Next thing I know, I’ve got a dick-pic text with the caption “Maybe this will persuade you.” WTF? Then when I still said no, he wrote back with the measurements in case the pic didn’t give me the full impression.

Megan Zander

Me too! high school best friend and another girl in our circle of friends all met our husbands on Match. We join on a lark. No dick pics luckily, but I did have one guy get scarily angry with me when I told him I had met someone ( my now husband).

Williwaw

Haha, I also met my husband on Match.com. I never got any dick pics (why does “dick pics” make me think of Pixy Stix?) but I did meet a few weirdos (not including the one I finally married). The strangest was this guy who, by his own admission, was an ultraconservative religious guy looking for the right woman to bear his children. When I replied to his e-mail, I asked him if he had looked at my profile (liberal-minded, scientist, atheist, with a career that I love), and he responded that he thought it could really work between us because obstacles just made romance better…

I never got any dick pics either (then again, my husband isn’t a dick pick kind of guy), but I’ve heard of two others in my circle who have received them so apparently it really is a thing.

I love my husband, but if he sent me a dick pic I think my reaction would be “Ummmmm, I don’t get it.”

Elizabeth Aspen

This was such a boring, rambling article, and stupid too. Like you can’t meet the same jerks OFFLINE? Guess what, the world is full of them.

Rowan

I proudly present, er, this guy…

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Chicho Blanco

That was a hilarious read. Kudos author.

March

That last guy is Johnny Clayton from ’11.22.63′!

partic

Oh my God really these stories are very nice and disaster. Indian singles

Mr Christmas

I found when I was on match.com . Women kept sending me pictures of their vaginas (yes I know , technically speaking it isn’t the vagina , more the vulva, labia and clitoris). Which I thought was quite sweet, really.